Thermal conductivity of Al2O3/water nanofluids: Measurement, correlation, sensitivity analysis, and comparisons with literature reports

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 675-681

  Esfe, Mohammad Hemmat ^a   Saedodin, Seyfolah ^a   Mahian, Omid ^b   Wongwises, Somchai ^c  

^a SEMNAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c KING MONGKUT'S UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THONBURI   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Correlation; Nanofluid; Sensitivity analysis; Thermal conductivity

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CORRELATION METHODS; NANOFLUIDICS; NANOPARTICLES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS;

NANOFLUIDS; PARTICLE LOADING; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; TEMPERATURE RANGE;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84904459379     PISSN: 13886150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10973-014-3771-x     Document Type: Article

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